Flying-machine.



the following is a f ALEXANDER v. wrLsoN, OF BAR HABBORZ'MAINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1998.

Application filed October a1,- 1906. Serial No. semis.

To all whom it concern:

Be it known that I, I SON, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Bar'Harbor, in the county.of.Hancock and State of- Maine,have invented a new and Improved-Flying-Machine, of which car, and exactdescription. I

invention relates to improvements in machines, the object beingtoprovide a fl ng machine of simple and compara+ tive y inexpensiveconstruction,.so arranged thatit will operate with or against the windand that may be readily directed laterally and also u and down.

Other 0 jects of the invention-willappear .in the neral description. v Idescribea 1 machine embed my invention and t on point out the novefeatures in 'the appended claimsl Reference is to be had to'theaccompanying drawi forming a part of this specification, in w hgdhsimilar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

' line 1--1 of Fig. 2,o

- bodying Figure 1 is a plan, partlyin section on the ,a flying machineemmy invention; Fig. 2 1S aside eleva= tion. thereof; Fig. 3 is a detailshowing a means for causing oscillatory movements of the wings orblades; .Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig.3 Fig. 5 is asection on the .line,5-j5 of Fig. 3; and Fig.- 6 is a sectionon "theline 6-6 of Fig.- 1

Referring to the drawin the car platform having on uprights 1 1 connected at the top by rollers 12, and interme:

' diate upri the severe upri hts of aside, being inclined row-nward fromthe center.

Between the intermediate uprights'13 is a housing '15 in which springrollers 16 are placed, and to' the spring rollers roofing cur .tains 17are'attached. These roofing cur 'tains. of course may be drawn downwardover the rollers 12 and secured bymeans of ro es to cleats 18 on theuprights 11.. Upon re easing the ropes the spring rollers will 'wind upthe roofing curtains:

To cause the flying movements of the machine, I employ a series ofwingsor blades.

' 1 have here shown two blades 19, 20 at one side of the machine and twoblades 21, 22- at the opposite side of the machine. The blade 19 isattached to the outer end of a stem 23 the innerend of whic engages witha crank 24 on a crank shaft 2 r 1 The stem 26 of the ALEXANDER V. Wns

s, designates his 13 and side rails 14 connect.

said side rails blade engages with a crank 27 on the crank shaft and thecranks 24, 27, are extended in o positedirections so that the wings orbla es will beEalternately moved inward and outward. The stem 28 of theblade 21 connects with a crank 29 on a crank shaft 30, while the stem 31for the wing or blade 22 enga es with a crank 32 on said crank shaft tese cranks '29, 32 are also arra ed or extended in opposite direc-'tions for t e urpose before described;

' Any suita le motor carried by the machine may be emploged to impartrotary motion to the cran s afts. I have here inis a'band wheel 35' fromwhich a band 36 extends to a band wheel '37 'on th e crank shaft 1 25The crank shaft 30 is operated from the shaft of the motor through themedium of a belt 38 engagin with a band-wheel 39 on the motor'sha t anwith a bandwheel '40 on the crank shaft 3Q.'

. I will now describe means for causing lateral deflect' or oscillatorymovements. of the wings or lade's." As this means is common toall thewings. or blades a description of one will answer for all. Secured.along the under side of the wing-carrying stems is a' metal rod 41 whichat its inner portion, that is substantially from the center to the innerend,

dicated a' inotor 33 on the shaft 34 of which is rectangularincrosssection' as indicated at The forward ortion is also rectangular butthis 'ortion as its corners turned at right-ang es to the corners of the portion 42,

as 'indicatedatj43. The rod 1s slidable throu' h a rectangular opening14.which is larger than the rod, this opening be slight y ing formed inapla'te"45 extended from. the cross-bar 46, to which it is voted andwhich of courseextends across t e carplatform to control the operationof the opposite blade of the. air. The plates45 are extended downwar andconnected by a bar 45", which may be shifted by'a lever 45', to move thefulcrurns either backward or for-. ward'with relation to the body; Thebar 46 is connected to slides 47, movable in guides 48 arranged on thebase or platform, and also connected to the slides is a cross-bar 49from which a rod 50 extends-to connection with an adjusting lever 51pivoted to a standard 52 which has at its top asegmentl-raclkrfi ftorengaging a sprln pressed paw ca the leven By thi s means the s eed orverti cal movement of the wings or b ades may be regulated byadjusting'zrthe fulcrum-that is,

the plates carried by the bar 46--inward 1 60 is manipulated. by meansof the handle (1.

or outward, and by this adjustment the time of oscillatory movement 01the blades may be adjusted. It will. be understood that the bar 46 has aslight rocking movement so that the rods 41 may pass readily through theopenin in the plates 4.5.

In t 1e operation of this portion of my flying machine, as-the crankshaft rotates, the wings of a pair will be alternately moved inward oroutward that is to say one blade of each air of blades makes 2 n u wardand outward stroke while'the other b ade of the air is making an inward.and upward. stroke.

uring a portion of the movement both inward and outward of the wing therectangular part 42 of the bar 4], in passing through the opening 44,will maintain the wing on a practically horizontal plane. When, howeverthe part 43 of said rod passes througlti the opening the wing will beoscillated at both inward and outward movements. By thls arrangement,the movements of the wings of a bird are closely simulatcd'and themachine is caused to ascend and tobe pro- The ascensional power of thema chine can also beincreased by adjusting the fulcrums of the blades,so that the blades will have alternate long and short strokes atopposite sides of the machine. This adjustmentfoi the fulcrumsof theblades also permits the machine to be'kept on an even keel.

'The machine may be deflected upward or downward by means of a weight 54slidable on a rod 55 extended upward from the front of the platform. Bymoving the weight outwarden the red the machine will. be deflect eddownward, and by moving the weight inward along the red the machine willmove upward. As a .means for adjusting the Wei ht I here show an endlessrope 56 which at t is outer portion carried on the end 0 the rod, and atthe iii-- 'nerortion plasses around pulleys 58'on the plat orm of t emachine. The rope it will be noted is attached to the wei ht asindicated at 59. It is to be understoer however, that other means may beemployed. for adjusting the weight without departing from the spiritTope ,63, secured to of my invention. i

The rudder consists of a rod, 60 extended outwardfrom the rear side ofthe car and havi rotary movement, and on the outer end 0 the rod 60 is atransverse bar 61 having pulleys 62 at the ends, An adjusting theoperating handle a passes over the pulleys 62 and thence to thecar-.nnd. is secured thereto. The inner ."treths of the rope 63 aresecured to the the bodyof the rudder.

that this riiddefis of triangular shape. hen

edges of the flexible material 64 which forms It will be noted asindicated in Fig. 1 When the red the rudder is extended the air-ski'gwill float on an even keel. it is desire to steer the ship laterally,

, tl'i'rough which said rod asses around'pulleys 57 to turn the body invertical direction or at an angle. lt to be umlcrsiriod. that the wingsmay be made oil" any desired length or eye tended inward as indicated.by the dotted line in Fig. 3.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. An air-ship comprising a car or bodyportion, wings or blades extendedoutward from both sides of the body portion, means for causinglengthwise reciprocating motion of the blades, and means for causiiigoscillatory movements of the blades on both their inward and outwardmovements.

2. An air-ship comprising a body portion, wings or blades extended fromopposite sides of the body portion, there being a pair of blades at eachside, stems extended inward from the blades, crank shafts, with thecranks of which the stems have, connection, the cranks of a shaft beingso arranged as to im part alternate longitudinal movements to the bladesof a pair, a motor for operating the crank'shafts, and means for causingoscillatory movements of the wings or blades.

3. In an air-ship, a body portion, a crank shaft thereon, a wing orblade, a stem ex-. tended inward from the wing or blade and havingconnection with the crank of the crank shaft, a rod connectedto theunder side of the stem, said rod through a portion of its length beingrectangular in cross seetion with its planes-respectively horizontal andperpendicular, and another portion of said rod being triangular in crosssection with its planes arranged at an angle to the planes of thefirst-named section, and a f1llcruin plate having a rectangularperforation is movable.

4'. :An airship comprising a body portion, a crank shafttlmreon, a stemhaving connec tion with the crank of the crank shaft, a wing or blade onthe outer end of the stem, a rod connected to the under side of thestem, the said rod having one portion of its length rectangular in crosssection with the planes thereof horizontal and vertical, the otherportion of the rod being also rectangular in cross section but havingplanes arranged at an acute angle with relation to the planes of thefirst-named section, a fulcrum plate hav ing a rectangular openingthrough which said Ted is movable, and means for adjusting said rods andfulcrums being so formed as to passing over said pulleys and extended tothe 1 permit not only of the longitudinal movecar, and a flexiblematerial connected to-the ment of the stems but to imparta rocking orinner stretches of the re e. oscillatory movement thereto. In testimonywhereo I have signed my 15 5 6. In an air-ship, the combination with aname to this specification in the presence of body or car and wingsextended outward two subscribing witnesses.

from the sides thereof, of a rudder consisting v of a rod extendedoutward from the rear of ALEXANDER WILSON the car and havingrotarymovement, a trans- Witnesses: 10 verse bar at the outer end ofsaid rod, pulleys JNo'. M. BITTER,

on the ends of said transverse. bar, a rope G. R. FERGUSON.

